VOORHEES, N.J. — In any NHL schedule, there will be games, and there will be moments, and there will be episodes and there will be turning points. For the Flyers, there was one night in November that provided one of each.

Beginning in the Wells Fargo Center, ending in an emergency room and resulting, oddly enough, in some better play later, that was the night when the Flyers lost, 7-0, to the Washington Capitals. In it, Steve Downie was knocked out in a fight, Vinny Lecavalier had some mouth trauma and Ray Emery, Craig Berube’s second goalie of the game, threw a memorable on-ice beating on Caps goalie Braden Holtby.

Though that dropped the Flyers to 3-9, they have been 11-6-3 since, suggesting, at least, a connection. That connection will be tested at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon in Washington, where the Flyers and Caps will meet for the first time since that 164-combined-penalty-minutes carry-on.

“Yeah, that definitely wasn’t fun to be a part of,” Downie said Saturday, after practice at the Skate Zone. “I am sure if you ask any of the guys in this room, it wasn’t fun. I mean, no one enjoyed that. No one does. But it’s how you regroup and how you refocus the next night. I think we will be ready to go and we learned a lot from that game.”

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Despite chants that night for the firing of Paul Holmgren, the Flyers responded with a 7-1-2 flurry, enough to have pushed them back into Eastern Conference relevance, where they remain, particularly after a comprehensive 2-1 victory Thursday over the visiting Montreal Canadiens.

For that, and because there could be some lingering ill-will, the Flyers understand the added significance to the first of a home-and-home, which will continue Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Center.

“They should have it in the back of their mind that we got embarrassed, 7-0,” Berube said. “That’s it. You don’t want to lose a hockey game like that any time. That’s the way you’ve got to look at it and approach it. It’s nothing more than that.”

But while it was just one, 60-minute night of ice hockey, it’s difficult to deny that since it, the Flyers have played better.

“We went on a pretty good run after that,” Berube said. “There was a response, which was good.”

If there was a response, it could have begun with the Emery fight, a sign of frustration, a violent plea for a better on-ice response. Berube did not name his goaltender for Sunday, but Steve Mason was excellent against the Habs Thursday, that just one night after Emery was bombarded in Chicago.

Either way, Emery will be prepared for the moment given Round 1 of the Caps-Flayers season series.

“It was a frustrating game,” he said. “It was an embarrassing game. And we have a good team, so we weren’t happy with the way we were playing. And I think it was inevitable that we turned it around.”

Perhaps because the Flyers rebounded, complicating the Metropolitan Division standings, the tensions with the Caps could be heightened.

“I think any time you lose, 7-0, you remember,” he said. “I think we will be prepared. I think we want to win hockey games. Like I said, I think we remember the loss.”

They will remember the Nov. 1 loss, and the pain — all of the pain, literal and otherwise.

“Oh, it might be in the back of the head,” Downie said. “But at the same time, you have to forget about something like that. You can use it for a little bit of extra motivation, but we shouldn’t need that extra motivation.

“We are right behind them in points to get into the playoffs and these two games are probably the biggest of the year so far.”

It will be a game, a moment and maybe, just maybe, another turning point.